Building businesses, thinking out loud, living in between.
Hey, I'm Dexter. I'm a business student at Minerva University, and I'm also a founder. Minerva has no campus, so every semester the whole class moves to a new country. That's how I ended up living out of three suitcases, with a company to run in between classes and a camera to show the whole thing.
Three things take up most of my days. One company, one school, one camera. People tell me they don't belong together. I think that's exactly why it works.
FounderAI native marketing for global brands. We run overseas communities for Insta360, Bambu Lab and others. We started by shipping AI subscription apps, 2,000+ paying users and $30K+ in revenue, then moved into marketing because that's where AI actually changes the work.
StudentBusiness major, strategic finance. No campus, no lectures, seven cities in four years. Every class is a live seminar where everyone has to talk. It's the hardest school I've ever been in, and the only one I'd do again.
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I'm new at this one. The channel shows what it actually looks like to build businesses while you're still in school. Business ideas, the things I build, what I'm learning about AI and marketing, and some life on the road. I don't know yet where it goes. Let's find out together.
Watch →Minerva moves the whole class to a new city every semester. Four years, seven cities. Five done. Tokyo next, then back to San Francisco to graduate. Each one gets a few months, a new language to fail at, and a new set of friends to say goodbye to. I'm not a tourist in these places. I live there, and then I leave.
01 · Year one🇺🇸Where it started. First year of school, CES in Vegas, TechCrunch Disrupt, and more Warriors games than I should admit.
02 · Fall 2024🇹🇼Four months. We started a basketball team from nothing, I pitched at Meet Taipei, and the exit stamp on Dec 26 still gets me.
03 · Spring 2025🇰🇷Snow in January, palaces at night, sunsets over the Han river, and a bar that happened to have my name on the wall.
04 · Year three🇦🇷Patagonia on the first road trip, Friendsgiving with the Argentine flag, Kendrick live, and the number one steak restaurant in the world.
05 · Fall 2026🇩🇪The Wall, Checkpoint Charlie, a bitcoin sign in a bar, and weekend trains to Budapest. This is where I'm writing this from.
Next semester. No photos yet, which is the honest version of this card.
07 · 2027🇺🇸Back to where it started, for the last semester and the cap and gown. Four years, full circle.
School gives me the cities. Everything in between is weekends, breaks, and friends who say "come visit" and actually mean it. Hover to see where.
I was in a meeting at a café in Tel Aviv when the rocket sirens went off and the barista pulled me into the basement. Two days later, same thing in Jerusalem. Then I crossed into the West Bank. The conflict isn't something you read about there. It's on every wall, every checkpoint, every face. I came back shaken, and I still don't have a clean take on it. I don't think I'm supposed to.
Four months in Taipei, done. I took the best memories with me. I love this city and the people I met here. That's the strange part of this school. Every few months you fall for a place, and then you have to leave it.
Walked into a Hungarian restaurant and the menu said the owner and chef was named Dexter. Looks like I have a side business I didn't know about. Travel is mostly this. Small, dumb moments you'd never get at home.
People asked me why. Honestly, I wanted to learn how to think properly, with people from everywhere, and Minerva was the only school where that's the whole design. No lecture halls. Every class is a small live seminar, and you get called on whether you're ready or not. Then the whole class moves to another country.
WURI, five years in a row, 2022 to 2026. Stanford, MIT, Penn and Caltech sit behind it in the top 10. source
Niche 2026. Also #15 for business and top 3% for academics nationwide. source
My classmates are from everywhere, which is the whole point.
One semester each. No campus, no dorm you keep. Your classmates become your family by necessity.
Every class is a live seminar, and the professor can see exactly how much you talk.
Before school I spent seven years building things inside companies and then on my own. Most of it worked. One thing didn't.
I'm a few months into this. If you watch one and something's wrong, tell me. That's the whole point of doing it in public.
Videos live on YouTube. The day to day lives on Instagram. If you want to talk work, LinkedIn is the easiest place to reach me.
